Regressive events in rat corticospinal axons during development in in vitro slice cocultures: Retraction, amputation, and degeneration

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 513, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-172

  Yoshioka, Noboru ^a   Murabe, Naoyuki ^a   Sakurai, Masaki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoaxotomy; Axonal amputation; Axonal degeneration; Axonal pruning; Branch point stability; Slice culture

Indexed keywords

YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL LABELING; CELL SWELLING; COCULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64049105411     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21950     Document Type: Article

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